"The only reason I can bring myself, without embarrassment, to collect and publish some of the manuscripts I wrote between the ages of fourteen and twenty is that this little book, Song of Everlasting Sorrow, represents a young girl's growth and the feelings she experienced along the way. It may be immature in its technique and filled with uncertainty and melancholy in its ideas, but it is truly a portrait of who I once was, of the real me.
We are sad because we cannot hold on to the years, and we cannot deny that one day, youth will naturally slip away."
